Posted on 08.31.11
By David Edwards
Categories: Activism, Featured
Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN), who is a top lawmaker in the Congressional Black Caucus, isn’t backing down from his assertion that tea partiers consider African Americans “second-class citizens.”
Norwegian Muslish Gunman’s Islam-Esque Atrocity from MuslimCommunityTV on Vimeo.
Just because Norway’s confessed murderer is a blond, blue-eyed, Norwegian-born, anti-Muslim crusader doesn’t mean he’s not a swarthy, ululating madman.
Source: http://vimeo.com/26949246
Aug. 31, 2011
MURFREESBORO, Tenn., Aug. 31 (UPI) — Muslims have the same right to build places of worship as other religions, a Tennessee judge said, upholding his refusal to block construction of a mosque.
Continue reading ‘Judge: Muslims have right to build mosque’
Tuesday, 08.30.11
Thousands of Muslims celebrated the holiday, Eid-Al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
By Tania Valdemoro Longest
tvaldemoro@MiamiHerald.com
By BILL SHERMAN World Religion Writer
Published: 8/28/2011 2:20 AM
On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks killed nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania. On the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, America continues to fight a war on terrorism that has claimed the lives of more than 100 Oklahomans. In the weeks leading up to the anniversary, the Tulsa World is telling the stories of those who have given their lives, victims of 9/11 and how the attacks affected us all.
Continue reading ‘Defending faith – Muslims have found religion under fire since 9/11 attacks’
Published on Friday, August 26, 2011 by Think Progress
by Faiz Shakir
Following a six-month long investigative research project, the Center for American Progress released a 130-page report today which reveals that more than $42 million from seven foundations over the past decade have helped fan the flames of anti-Muslim hate in America. The authors — Wajahat Ali, Eli Clifton, Matt Duss, Lee Fang, Scott Keyes, and myself — worked to expose the Islamophobia network in depth, name the major players, connect the dots, and trace the genesis of anti-Muslim propaganda.
A new report details how a small group of donors and ‘intellectuals’ have pushed Islamophobia into the mainstream.
MJ Rosenberg Last Modified: 27 Aug 2011
has been just about a decade since Islamophobia exploded in this country. That was of moment that the World Trade Center and Pentagon were hit by al Qaeda terrorists. It existed prior to 9/11, but the losses that day and the general terror it inflicted upon this country made many, many Americans much more wary of Arabs and, fairly quickly, fearful of the religion the terrorists professed.
(AFP) – August 27, 2011
WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama urged Americans on Saturday to display unity ahead of the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, arguing the country was still facing “great challenges.”
Continue reading ‘Obama calls for unity ahead of 9/11 anniversary’
By EILEEN SULLIVAN – Associated Press |
August 25, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — Even as the New York Police Department sent undercover officers into Muslim neighborhoods to detect possible terrorist activities in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks, government officials there and elsewhere have sought to build relationships in Muslim communities and pledged to ensure that Muslims aren’t targeted for discrimination.
Continue reading ‘NY Muslims feel targeted despite alliance promise’
During the last ten days of Ramadan, Muslims around the world seek to observe Laylat Al Qadr
By Noorhan Barakat, Staff Reporter
Published: 00:00 August 21, 2011
During the last ten days of Ramadan, Muslims around the world seek to observe Laylat Al Qadr (The Night of Power). Muslims also get ready for Eid Al Fitr.
Monday, 15 August 2011 17:16 BC & Agencies
More details continue to emerge about the course of last month’s shooting spree in Norway that claimed 69 lives — the most deadly attack country has suffered since World War II. We now learned about two brave Muslim Chechen boys who not only tried to stop the shooter, but also saved many by pulling them into the cave which they discovered on the shores of the island. Movsar Zyamaev, 17, and Rustam Daudov, 16, became unexpected heroes of this tragedy.
Continue reading ‘Chechen Boys Saved Many From the Norwegian Killer .’
10:00 PM PDT on Saturday, August 20, 2011
BY DUG BEGLEY
STAFF WRITER
dbegley@pe.com
Dozens of Temecula-area Muslims broke their daily Ramadan fast Saturday with a community meal, where leaders outlined plans for breaking ground on the area’s first Islamic center.
Continue reading ‘Temecula: Fast ends with look toward new mosque’
Haroon Jahan, 21, and brothers Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31, died after being hit by a car during rioting
Rajeev Syal guardian.co.uk, Thursday 18 August 2011
Continue reading ‘Birmingham riots: funerals of three Winson Green men take place’
The Times August 20, 2011
TWENTY-FIVE thousand people turned out yesterday to the funeral of the three “martyrs” killed at the height of last week’s riots in Birmingham.
People of all colours and religions heard that the deaths of Haroon Jahan, 21, and the brothers Shahzad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31, heralded a “new chapter for Muslims in Britain”. A new history was being written, Sheik Muhammad Yaqoubi said, in which the Islamic community played its part in social action, where Muslims defended everybody’s communities, where Muslims were the most loyal of British.
Continue reading ‘Riot deaths ‘new dawn for British Muslims’’
Before Ibrahim Abdel-Wahed Mohamed left Sea Cliff for a tour of duty with the Marines in Iraq, he was Anthony Grant Vance, the son of American and Panamanian parents who had raised him as a Catholic.
Continue reading ‘Finding Faith: A Long Island Marine Discovers Islam in Iraq’
How a Moorish slave became an explorer in the New World
By Alexander Lee Friday, August 19, 2011
Five Spanish ships dropped anchor just north of what is now Tampa Bay, Fla., in mid-April 1528. Led by the recently appointed Spanish governor of Florida, Pánfilo de Narváez, a contingent of 400 heavily armed men went ashore. As the proud conquistadors formed up along the beach, however, they were joined by another, more incongruous member of their number — a young Moorish slave named Estévanico. He was the first Muslim known to have set foot in Florida, and his arrival in the New World marked his transformation from humble bondsman into a conquistador and demigod.
Continue reading ‘The History Page: The Muslim conquistador’
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS
Published: Aug 20, 2011
MAKKAH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah on Friday launched the largest expansion of the Grand Mosque in history, which will increase the mosque’s capacity to more than 2.5 million worshippers and cost SR80 billion.
Continue reading ‘King Abdullah launches SR80 billion Haram expansion project’
